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AI for Data Center Development.

Develop the world's most critical projects on full information.
Infrastructure that keeps developers ahead.

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About Sandbox

Data center development is a dense network of interdependent decisions – power, land, fiber, regulatory,
cooling – each one reshaping every other as conditions change. Today these decisions are made against
fragmented data across spreadsheets, inboxes, and siloed tools. Sandbox is the infrastructure that captures
this dependency structure and runs workflows, AI agents, and deliverables on top of it.

Infrastructure, not Application

Point solutions sit on top of fragmented data and inherit its limits. Sandbox is the layer beneath them, where
every analytical tool, AI agent, and human judgement a firm uses becomes usable, comparable, and additive.

A Graph at the Core

Development is a system of interdependent decisions. Only a graph and a purpose-built ontology can model
them as such. Entities vary across jurisdictions and asset types; First principle relations between them do not.

From Dust to Data Center

Sandbox v1 targets feasibility and underwriting. Subsequent phases extend the same graph across the full
project lifecycle, closing the gap between plan and execution.

Built for critical Projects

Development is uncertain, judgement-heavy, decision-dense, multi-stakeholder, and lifecycle-spanning.
Generic project management software is not designed for that work. Sandbox is.

Data Room

Build on everything your firm already knows (and beyond).
Sandbox is the data layer that captures, in structure, the way a development project actually works.
Every entity, dependency, and decision is part of one connected system. Owned by the firm, accessible
to everyone working on it. Sandbox is the super-brain of your firm.

Data Ingestion

Project data

Documents, designs, models, and filings generated for a project

Regulatory & Permitting

Codes, zoning, approvals, planning records, etc.

Power & Infrastructure

Grid, utility, fiber, water, equipment data, etc.

Market & Capital

Costs, rates, benchmarks, transactions, financing conditions, etc.

Stakeholders & Communication

Counterparties, contacts, and the firm's working exchanges

Firm Knowledge

The firm's accumulated outcomes, history, and judgment

Knowledge as a Firms Competitive Advantage

Institutional experience currently held by individuals and distributed across fragmented systems becomes
structured, queryable, firm-owned intelligence. Every professional works against firm's full history & context.

Provenance on Everything

Every data point carries origin, confidence, and version. Every output Sandbox produces, and every input it
draws from, traces back to the exact data point in the data room.

Collaboration

No project is built alone. Sandbox enables easy-to-use permissioned spaces, scoped external access, and
shareable links that let everyone from LPs to regulatory counsel contribute.

Forward-deployed

Sandbox is set up by a dedicated forward-deployed team that connects existing systems, ingests historic
project archives, and tailors the ontology to the firm's demands & workflows.

Agent Output

Sandbox brings the full power of large language models to development. Every model, every workflow, every
agent answer is grounded in the full state of the project, captured in the Sandbox graph. Workflows collapse
weeks of work into minutes, thousands of scenarios are evaluated where a team today evaluates three, and
connections, risks, and dependencies a team would otherwise miss are surfaced automatically.
The focus moves from analyst capacity to judgement itself.

Assistant

Assistant

A LLM reasoning layer grounded in the firm's entire source of truth. Analysis is faster,
sharper, and traceable to every underlying node.

Workflows

Workflows

Composable workflows tailored to how a firm already works. Deployed in days,
not months, and built up as the work evolves.

Live Activities

Live Activities

Continuous monitoring across every input to the project. Alerts on cascades,
pattern recognition, regulatory shifts, market moves, and material deviations.

Interoperability

Interoperability

Bringing reasoning to where the work already happens. Sandbox connects to
existing business apps, preserving and enriching them with full project context.

Building Critical Infrastructure for Critical Infrstructure

A platform that holds a firm's full project state, stakeholder network, and decision history concentrates risk that no single tool in a firm has ever concentrated before. That concentration is what makes Sandbox valuable – and what makes its security architecture the single most important thing we build. Every part of Sandbox is designed around that responsibility.

Your data stays yours

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Every firm operates in its own dedicated environment. No shared storage, no shared model training, no access between firms under any condition.

Permissions at the document and data level

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Access can be set precisely by data and document. An LP granted access to an investment memo cannot reach anything else not explicitly shared.

Full audit trail, built in

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The graph-based architecture allows every data point & output to carry a complete record of where it came from, who accessed it, and how it changed.

Partner-audited architecture

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Held to the standard of the firms deploying it. Sandbox is being co-developed alongside institutional partners with the highest security standards in the industry.

Certifications & Compliance

SOC 2 SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001 ISO 27001
ISO 27017 ISO 27017
GDPR GDPR Compliant

// Targets we build to. EU-based infrastructure and on-premise deployment available by default.
Compliance is treated as an outcome of correct design rather than later audit overlay.

Case studies and research

Sandbox is being co-developed with a selected group of institutional developers across Europe.
Early deployments, foundational research, and technical publications are collected here.

A16Z, March 2026

Emanuel Schaefer – Managing Director, Developer Frances

Friedrich März – Head of AI, L'Oréal Paris

Max Musterman – CEO, Neo4j

FAQ

Sandbox is the data and intelligence layer built for data center development. It connects a firm's project data, stakeholder network, and institutional knowledge into a single graph, on which every decision, workflow, and AI application across a project's lifecycle runs.
Existing tools — project management platforms, spreadsheets, document repositories — sit on top of fragmented data and inherit its limits. Sandbox is the layer beneath them. It doesn't replace your tools; it connects them into a single queryable graph, so every analysis, agent, and decision runs against a unified state rather than a patchwork of exports.
No. Sandbox reads from where your data already lives — SharePoint, Excel, Revit, Procore, email, and other existing systems. Our forward-deployed team handles ingestion and integration. You keep using the tools you use today; Sandbox adds the layer that connects and structures their output.
You do, completely. Your data is stored in a fully isolated tenant environment, never used to train shared models, and exportable in full at any time. Sandbox does not claim any rights to your project data, stakeholder relationships, or institutional knowledge.
Every output Sandbox produces is grounded in your data room — not general training data. The graph architecture means every claim traces back to a specific source: a document, a data feed, or a prior project record. Sandbox will tell you when it doesn't have sufficient grounding for a question rather than generate a plausible-sounding answer.
Sandbox is deployed by a dedicated forward-deployed engineering team. We connect your existing systems, ingest historic project archives, and tailor the ontology to your firm's structure. Most firms are operational within four to six weeks of kickoff. Ongoing support is included.
Sandbox is built by a team with backgrounds spanning data center development, knowledge graph infrastructure, and applied AI. The product is being co-developed alongside a small number of institutional development partners to ensure it is built to the actual demands of the market.
Sandbox is priced on an annual subscription basis, scoped to firm size and deployment complexity. Pricing is available on request. We are currently working with a limited number of launch partners — reach out to discuss.
Sandbox v1 is in active deployment with launch partners. We are selectively onboarding new firms. If you're working on data center development at scale and want to be considered, get in touch through the demo request form.
Request a demo using the button at the top of this page, or reach out directly. We'll schedule a brief call to understand your firm's current setup, discuss fit, and outline what a deployment would look like for your team.